I'm glad we went with the glossy doors, they were twice as much as the regular white doors, but the glossy makes it look like it could be from Inform Interiors and not Ikea. (Haha, dream on! I say to self.)

Found at the farmer's market on Granville Island. The depth, layers and colours, so beautiful. Can't believe this has to fade away in order for a yummy passionfruit to appear. Seems unfair. Why can't we have both?

After a fun filled afternoon at the Vancouver Aquarium, we stopped at Campagnolo Roma for a quick early dinner before heading home.

I see it as a more casual little brother to Campagnolo, where by the way, we did not have a good experience at the last time we were there for dinner. The host staff made plenty of mistakes and caused us over 1.5 hour wait four our table. They forgot about us, over booked large parties, poor communication between staff etc etc. Even though they profusely apologized during our meal and gave us part of our meal for free, we were not impressed. If someone does one thing wrong to you, that someone needs to do 10 good things back to make it up, psychologically true fact. Hence we've never been back.

Local Octopus Salad, charred bread, scarola, red wine vinegar

But this is a completely different restaurant, therefore we will not let our past experience hinder our judgement. And now that we have a little one, our dinner time is 5:30pm, most people are not even off work yet, so we never need to wait for a table anymore.

Rigatoni, Fennel Seed Sausage, Walla Walla Onion, Ricotta

We were their first patrons of the evening, got to pick our seat. They didn't have highchairs or boosters, so there wasn't much choice but the bench, a place for Castle to plop. (Minus 1 for no highchair.)

Pizza Funghi - chanterelles, zucchini, fontina, roasted garlic cloves

My favourite of the meal was the Funghi Pizza, which doesn't look that great in the picture, but do not let that fool you. The combo of ingredients was smashingly exciting in my mouth, and the fennel seed spicy sauce that it came with on the side was awesome. I may come back just for this pizza, hopefully it's a permanent item on the specials board.

Pizza Margherita - fior di latte, tomato sauce, basil

The ceiling is covered in a variation of wood planks at different thicknesses. Fun.

All in all it was a good place for pizza, but that's about it for me. I'm not one to go out for Italian food, because it is so easy, quick and inexpensive to make at home, especially pasta. I can't justify paying 10 times the cost for a little bowl.

One more photo from the Vancouver Aquarium before I sign off, these two are holding hands while sleeping. So adorable!!!

I finally understand now why most before photos of 'Before and After's look so blurry and poor in quality. I did not intend to do a 'Before and After' with this new lamp, but seeing it installed, I had to share because it's so much fun. I went digging in my history of folders for a before photo. And that terribly crocked one taken on my iPhone was unfortunately the best of them. Now you know.